URiM Resident Research Elective

Research Elective with One-on-One Mentoring 

Offering 1 month Intensive Research Rotation with an option to choose from In-Person (local applicatants) or Virtual (applicants outside of the Boston Medical Center community)

September or October 2023 with application deadline of July 1, 2023

Each trainee will have the opportunity to work with one or more faculty, such as  Dr. Neogi, Dr. Felson, Dr. Dubreuil,  Dr. Liew, or Dr. Bujor

Eligibility Requirements:

  • Applicants must be currently in a US Residency Program, either at Boston Medical Center (for in-person) or another ACGME accredited Program in the US (virtual)
  • Applicants must be able to devote 8 hours per week for 4 weeks for the intensive research experience (during a research/elective or ambulatory block)
  • Must qualify as a URiM, defined as “Underrepresented in medicine means those racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population.” Boston Medical Center follows the AAMC definition of URiM which includes…
    • Black/African American
    • Hispanic/Latino or Latinx
    • American Indian/Alaska Native
    • Native Hawaiians/Other Pacific Islanders

Curriculum

1-Month intensive (Sept or Oct 2023) followed by 2 months flexible experience (later AY 2023-2024)

  • Intensive experience (4 weeks) requires 8 hours per week, and synchronous participation in:
    • Research Meeting Accelerator (1.5h/wk) held every Tuesday at 9:30am
    • Mentoring meetings (0.5 h/wk), to be agreed upon with chosen mentor
    • Rheumatology Journal Club 2nd Wednesday of the month at 8am
    • Epi Journal Club 3rd Wednesday of the month at 12:15pm (~0.5h/wk average)
  • Project research work (4.5 h/wk)
  • Attend Clinical Research Office seminars (1h/wk)
  • Flexible experience (8 weeks) requires 4 hours per week to complete Research Project.
  • Potential Projects Include:
    • Epidemiologic studies of risk factors or outcomes of osteoarthritis, gout, CPPD, psoriatic arthritis or spondyloarthritis
    • Scoping reviews of current topics in rheumatology
    • Image-based analysis using data from the Framingham Study or Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study (MOST)
    • Development and user testing for a phenyotype/variable library
    • Boston Medical Center residents only may choose a hands-on translational research in  molecular mechanisms of scleroderma

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Research Elective

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